Normally, this would annoy me.
It feels less and less like the MCU is the only game in town anymore.
The result was that individual filmmakers didn’t have much freedom to leave their mark.
The machinery had to keep running smoothly when they left, after all.
Ryan Coogler was one of the few directors who was able to leave his stamp on the system.
This hasn’t been the case for most MCU directors.
James Gunn, similarly, has only made superhero movies since the first Guardians of the Galaxy.
After months in theaters, it took number one in August, closing out the summer on top.
This is what Ive been waiting for all throughout the theater’s post-pandemic era.
Give me something, anything, other than franchise slop.
Now that a real alternative is here, heck, I might give the slop another chance.
